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The Media Must Do Better at Covering Abortion
It’s a matter of rights, freedom, life and death
This week, the New York Times released this (stink)bombshell of an article about the political issue of abortion titled When Does Life Begin?
With the title itself, the article starts off on entirely the wrong premise, and goes through a longwinded, completely unnecessary philosophical debate about when a fertilized egg becomes a person. When it comes to abortion, it doesn’t matter when life begins. The only “person” who matters in this equation is the pregnant person. There is already a living, breathing person who exists in the here and now, and only they get to make a decision about whether or not they want to risk their life, health and finances on a pregnancy.
The mainstream media has got to stop centering the abortion issue on the pregnancy, and always, always center the issue on the pregnant person. The pregnancy is irrelevant. But that’s what the forced-birth movement does — it completely erases any mention of the pregnant person — let alone their rights, and centers the entire abortion argument on a fertilized egg, which is utter nonsense. They have spent many years, and millions (billions?) of dollars pushing a misogynistic fairy tale that somehow pregnancy renders the pregnant person void of all rights.
